Salazar’s words reverberated through the planet, making all the disciples to stop doing what they were doing, to process what they just heard.
Deaths weren’t uncommon for outer disciples and assistants, if they wanted to climb up the ladder to become inner disciples, they had to save up a large amount of contribution points, which was only possible if they took in “extermination” type missions for the sect, also the resources the sect gave them weren’t enough to advance in a short period of time.
There was a risk of dying, but due to that, the rewards were also quite eye catching, depending on the difficulty of course.
So, it was normal for them to die often, the balance was kept due to that, as only a small percentage managed to save up enough to become inner disciples, in other words if they wanted to advance it wasn’t impossible, but they needed to work hard
In comparison, those who entered as inner disciples had it a bit easier at the beginning, unlike outer disciples, they would receive a decent amount of resources each month meaning that they weren’t “forced” to accept hard missions, unless they wanted to outstand of course.
That being said, the wall to become a core disciple was hard to surpass, and for male disciples it was worse, it was virtually impossible for them to get the points needed to apply to become core disciples, without taking missions that put their lives at risk, but they could do well with their assigned resources and minor missions if they wanted to stay mediocre.
The reason as to why none of the top inner male disciples has become a core disciple, is that the mission they had to accomplish was either do or die, once they tried, they would either return to the sect as core disciples or as corpses.
That’s why none of them have tried, there hasn’t been an inner disciple dying in who knows how many years, and now one of the top ones died and in one of the main planets of the sect on top of that.
Salazar observed the situation in the city and then imprisoned Ramon in a sphere of spirit energy.
“Salazar, what is the meaning of this!”, Ramon who was trying to lessen the pain his hand, suddenly found himself trapped, and he gritted his teeth as he yelled at Salazar
“What am I doing you ask, you caused a disaster in one of the cities of the battle peak, as the law enforcer assigned to this planet, I’m bringing your ass to the rift of retribution to be judged”.
“What!”, Ramon was about to lose it, his grandson was killed in front of him, and he was being threatened to be judged because he sought justice for himself.
His whole body trembled as he spat a mouthful of blood due to anger, with a pale expression he pointed at Salazar.
“You aren’t the one in charge of punishment, under whose authority are you trying to arrest me”, he blabbered.
“Under mine, I also witnessed you attacking the Lord of the Twin Sword Valley, without a proper reason”, said William as he dusted off his shorts.
“HE KILLED MY GRANDSON”, screamed Ramon, making the sphere of spirit energy created by Salazar, to tremble as he tried to break free.
Unfortunately for him, William extended his hand towards the sphere and reinforced the sphere with his own spirit energy, successfully restraining Ramon.
Salazar then nodded at Aster.
“We’ll take our leave now… everyone is now aware of your status, just take into account the fact that the Twin Sword array will only activate if your enemy is above the Mortal Transcending realm and while you are within the grounds of the battle peak, a map has been added to the ring for that”.
After saying that, Salazar decided to leave the leave, so he and William started floating followed by the now imprisoned Ramon, when the sky suddenly lit up.
A woman’s voice which contained a slight hint of threat and authority echoed through the sky.
“Now, I think elder Ramon’s attitude is justified, since his grandson unfortunately passed away, let’s not take things too far”.
Then as if it was the decree of the heavens, the clouds split and a pillar of silver light descended from the sky enveloping Ramon and cutting off any connection that Salazar or William had with the spirit imprisoning sphere.
Ramon let out a sigh of relief as he noticed his wounds were healing under the influence of the silver light, his body slowly floated upwards, now that he felt safe again, he turned to see the remains of his grandson and then gave Aster a poisonous gaze.
“Miss, please let me recover the corpse of my grandson so I can give him a proper burial”.
After a couple of seconds of silence, another branch of the silver light covered Hector’s corpse.
But then another charge happened.
“Whooosh!”, a five-hundred-meter sword made out of a dark substance appeared on the sky, dispelling the excess of illumination in the process and cutting the silver pillar of light.
Another feminine voice could be heard though the sky of the whole planet, this one was softer, but that didn’t hide the firm authority behind it.
“This is my battle peak, who gave you the right to free a judgement awaiting person without my permission, Selene?”.
The floor trembled for a split of a second before the formations in the city and nearby areas came to life, a barrier was projected and only then the situation calmed down.
But that was only in the ground, the situation on the upward was completely different, the sky was divided in silver and black, lightnings appeared as two different spirit energies clashed.
It was as if the world was going to end, this situation continued until the black sword which appeared not too long ago, pierced the sky and flew towards the Blacksmith peak planet.
“Are you crazy Helena, there is no law enforcer to protect the planet!”.
One of the two presences which were clashing on the sky disappeared and the darkness immediately swallowed the silver light, before everything returned to normal.
A moment later a figure clad in dark gray light appeared on the sky, and then the palanquin which Salazar and the other law enforcers saw at the outer ring of the battle peak castle also appeared.
Both the blurred dark gray figure and the palanquin simply stood still for a couple of minutes, making the disciples hold their breath.
A situation like this has never happened before, although it was known that the supreme elders didn’t exactly get along with each other, a head on confrontation like this has never occurred until now.
“What do you want”, the figure cladded in gray light, slowly spoke.
The woman inside the palanquin, remained silent for a moment before answering.
“10% of the sales from your Blacksmith peak for the next three years and ten thousand sets of heaven piercing arrows as well as an exquisite jade bow”.
The heaven trembled again, but before the gray cladded figure could do anything, the woman inside the palanquin added.
“It’s that or the law enforcer Ramon goes to the rift of retribution, for the next three years, look at the mess he caused in one of my cities, your choice”.
The gray cladded figure gazed at Ramon, although getting a replacement for him was easy, this was a matter of face, if she didn’t support an elder of her Blacksmith Peak, then, it would leave a stain in her reputation.
“Deal”, with a single word, the same silver pillar swallowed Ramon and Hector’s corpse and then disappeared, leaving only the palanquin floating in the sky.
“Elder Salazar, begin the reconstruction of the city and proportionate those who were affected but had nothing to do with this whole situation, a proper compensation”.
“Yes, miss”.
Salazar slightly bowed towards the palanquin which then disappeared, the disciples who were affected by Ramon’s attack approached Salazar and waited for their compensation, it might sound a bit cheap, but they were all low ranked inner disciples, and free resources were kindly accepted.
Aster saw the girl who was accompanying Hector, leaving with a pale expression, since she didn’t attack him, then she was free to leave with a warn, if she didn’t pay attention to it, then Aster didn’t mind to send her with Hector.
It was getting late and now and since Salazar seemed to be quite busy, Aster turned to see the girls before saying.
“Let’s go, tomorrow the sect will start its activities, so we will spend the rest of the day resting”.
“Mm”, the girls nodded, Agnes already explained them some of the benefits of the battle peak, there were teachers assigned to impart certain lessons, some were free for everyone, others were exclusive for inner or core disciples and there were some who even required a payment.
Other disciples had to attend, but since Aster and the girls were free to do what they wanted, they were the ones who decided if they wanted to attend or not.
While Aster wasn’t particularly interested, Kana, Aria and even Alice wanted o give it a try, he also wanted to start making money, as he wanted to use the influence of the sect to look for materials for Rya.
In other words, there was a lot of things to do, but for today, seeing two cultivators on the Heavenly Transformation realm clashing was enough.
‘It seems those two changed this place quite a bit while I was gone, to think that even the Stal family has joined our little project… I wonder what has happened in the upper stellar systems in these years’, thought Lilia as she caught a particle of the silver light emitted from the supreme elder of the Blacksmith peak.